11/08/2007 @ 6:00PM

By The Numbers: Best Bang For The Puck

Pay for performance is a hot subject among executives. It is for hockey players, too, especially since the salary cap was imposed on NHL teams (currently 56% of league revenue), beginning with the 200506 season. To identify the best values last season, we created a new metricbang for the puck. A player with a BFP score of 150 was 50% more productive, when factoring in his performance and salary, than his peers. We separated skaters from goalies. Click here for complete methodology.